Solo Exhibitions

Group Exhibitions

Bibliography

BOOKS
Amadio, Nadine; Inaugural Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition, M&C Aust. Art Foundation 1987
Amadion, Nadine; Moet & Chandon National Touring Exhibition, M&C Aust. Art Foundation 1988
Australian Perspecta ‘85, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1985
Croft, Christopher: Mindscapes, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1989
Denholm, Michael; Recent Australian Art, 1996
ICI Contemporary Art Collection, ICI Australia, 1989
McGregor, Ken; William Creek and Beyond, Craftsman House, Sydney 2002
McCulloch, Tom; The First Australian Sculpture Triennial, La Trobe University, Melbourne 1981
Second Australian Contemporary Art Fair, ACAF2 1990
Waterlow, Nick; Silver, UNSW College of Fine Arts, 1998

PERIODICALS
Fortescue, Elizabeth; “Postcard on the Edge”, The Daily Telegraph, 26 May 2006, p.76 (ill)
Lopez, Annemarie; ‘Box Office’, The (Sydney) Magazine, Issue #38, June 2006, p.85 (Ill)
‘Hot Seat’, The Australian, Review, May 27 2006, p.17
Amadio, Nadine; “From Vineyard to Canvas”, This Australia, Spring 1987
Anderson, Patricia; “Archibald Review”, Weekend Australian, March 2004
Bogle, Michael; “Clay Time”, Vogue Living, May 1989
Borlase, Nancy; “Sculpture moves back…”, Sydney Morning Herald, 24 April 1982
Brennan, Betsy; “Rodney Pople’s Passion and Paradox”, Vogue Living, March 1990
Burns, Jennifer; “fine art fusion”, Vogue Living, Oct/Nov, 1993, p. 120
Chanin, Eileen; (ed), Australian Contemporary Painting, Craftsman House, 1991
Cochrane, Peter; “Now it's our turn: Pople Goes Mao’, Sydney Morning Herald, 6 April 1994
Crawford, Ashley; “Acquire all things bleak and beautiful’, Mercedes Australia Magazine, Autumn 2002,
pp. 73-77
Crawford, Ashley; “Desert Dreaming:, Condé Nast Traveller (Australia), July 2002, p. 96
Cubby, Ben; “Dog’s Breakfast?”, Sydney Morning Herald, 22 November 2004, p.14
Curnow, Heather; “Watercolours Strong in Structure, Imagery”, The Mercury, 20 June 1987
Delaruelle, Jacques; “A canon greater than the self”, The Sydney Review, December, 1993, p.14
Dewar, Sue; “Beijing Report”, Art and Asia Pacific, March 1995
Fischbein, Johanna; “Ghosts and Watercolour Symbolism”, Eastern Herald, 10 November 1988
Fortescue, Elizabeth; “The Mad, Bad and Beautiful”, The Daily Telegraph, 19 March 2004, pp.16-17
Geissler, Marie; “Rodney Pople”, Business Review Weekly, 1996
Hessey, Ruth; “Rodney Pople”, Vogue, April 1991
Hill, Peter;  “Sticks and Banoes”, Sydney Morning Herald, 11 December 2004, p. 20
Hill, Peter;  “Face Values”, Sydney Morning Herald, 1-2 May 2004, pp. 8-9
Hoffert, Bernard; “Review”, The Age, 13 October, 1983
Holloway, Memory; “Review”, The Age, 12 October 1983
Hynes, Victoria; “Beast in Show”, Sydney Morning Herald, 20 April 2001, p.26
Hynes, Victoria; “Rodney Pople”, Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney Magazine, December, p.133
Johnson, Anna; “Blake’s Vision Trapped in a Spiral of the Senses”, Sydney Morning Herald, 4 November 1988
Johnson, Anna; “Rodney Pople”, Interior Design, No. 17, 1989
Kidd, Courtney; “Simple Gestures…”, Sydney Morning Herald, 11 April 2001, p.24
Litson, Jo; “Great Expectations”, The Weekend Australian Magazine, 6-7 October 1990
Loxley, Anne; “Pople’s Whirling World”, Sun Herald, 6 November 1988
Lynn, Elwyn; “Portrait of the Artist…”, The Weekend Australian, 10-11 December 1988
Lynn, Elwyn; “Review”, The Weekend Australian, 2-3 December 1989
Lynn, Elwyn; “Fertile fantasies”, The Weekend Australian, 3-4 December 1993, p. 10
Maloon, Terence; “Images from the Battle Zone...”, Sydney Morning Herald, 18 August 1984
Maloon, Terence; “Artists take a well known Walk on the Wild Side”, Sydney Morning Herald, 26 Sept 1986
McDonald, John, “The 2008 Archibald Prize”, Sydney Morning Herald, 15 March 2008
McDonald, John: “Statue? Painting? Look Again”, Sydney Morning Herald, 4 October, 1985
McDonald, John; “Searching Abstracts by Bedridden Artists”, National Times, 5 October 1986
McDonald, John; “Moet Award is not all bubbly”, Sydney Morning Herald, 3 October 1987
McDonald, John; “Review”, Sydney Morning Herald, 2 February 1988
McDonald, John; “Overpowered by Mindless Mindscapes”, Sydney Morning Herald, 29 April 1989
McDonald, John; “Blake pursues outward signs of spiritual grace”, Sydney Morning Herald, 17 December 1993, Spec. 12A
McDonald, John; “Fall Guy’, Sydney Morning Herald, 14 Sept 1996, p.14
Mendelssohn, Joanna: “What should have won?”, Unleashed, ABC, 10 March 2008
Miller, Ronald;  “Review”, The Herald, 6 October 1983
Milson, Rosemarie; “Where Art Thou?”, Sun Herald (Sunday Life), 15 December 2002, p. 15
Queensland Art Gallery, 1991 Annual Report (cover illustration) 1992
Rooney, Robert; “The Artist as Gap-Filler”, The Weekend Australian, 10-11 May 1989
“Skilful painting takes out Annual Lake Prize”, Lake Macquarie Advocate, 8 Sept 1988
Smee, Sebastian; “Win lose and draw”, Sydney Morning Herald, 13 Sept 1996, p.13
Stowell, Jill; “Prize creates Collection Cornerstone”, The Mercury, 16 September 1988
Sturgeon, Graeme; “Six Names to Watch”, Australian Collector’s Quarterly, Nov ‘89 - Jan‘90
“Sydney Artists take Prizes”, Lake Macquarie Post, 20 September 1988
Taylor, Roger; “Interview”, 3RRR FM Radio, Melbourne, 8 November 1986
Taylor, Roger; “Rodney Pople’, World Sculpture, January 2000
Taylor, Roger; “Rodney Pople”, Asian Art News, vol.11, no.3, May/June 2001, pp.80-81    
Verghis, Sharon; “Opening/Spotlight”, Sydney Morning Herald, 11 April 2001, p.22
Verghis, Sharon; “Arts Saviour…”, Sydney Morning Herald, 16 - 17 November 2002, pp.1 –2
Verghis, Sharon; “For Pope, Duke or Deague”, Sydney Morning Herald, 23 - 24 November 2002, p. 15
“When our artists pass by a creek”, Sunday Telegraph, 29 December 2002, p. 103
Woodcock, Phyllis; “Different Artists in Two Shows”, Courier Mail, 8 August 1987

Awards

Collections

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Artbank, Sydney
ICI Contemporary Art Collection
Lake Macquarie Gallery, NSW
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
University of Western Sydney

Selected Reviews

Moving Pictures | The Sydney Morning Herald | 16 Jun 2006
Not for Rodney Pople the cliches of Venetian gondolas and the Bridge of Sighs. | The Sydney Morning Herald | 25 May 2006
New Year Group Exhibition | The Sunday Age, Preview | 6 Jan 2005